Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1887-03-24

man, when man goes fishing he
lakes delicate pole, delicate line,
4 delicate hook and a delicate fly.
Then he drops it into the stream and
brings out a fish. But you take
weaver's beam for your pole, a thick
rope for your line and live scorpion
for your bait. Then you fling it into
the stream and call out Bite or be
damned 1t is very evident you
don't know how to fish,
MEN AND WOMEN AS GossIPs.
Blunder number three was dis
enlargement under bad treatment
There was a lot of bad treatment
going around, but it was foolish to
be discouraged by it. Sometimes
people had grudge against a man
and sometimes they only discourage
him by tittle-tattle. 1t was said that
women made the biggest gosslps. He
wasn't so sure about it. Many man
was ruined just when he was pulling
round the corner and getting rid of
his difficulties, just because some
men ought to have something better
to do had taken upon themselves to
dissect his character and damage his
credit. Gossip was all powerful lit had
more than once shaken state. Born
in the lowest corner of pandemonium
it crept out and with q fendish hiss
effected its dire purpose.
Another blunder was excessive
amusement. He never con-
demned amusement. The man who
didn't know how to play seldom
knew how to work, and, if he could
work, what he does didn't amount to
much. The child with no vivscity
seldom grew to celebrity, for where
they were no blossoms in spring
there would be no fruit in the fall
God meant men to laugh and be
joyous; if he hadn't he would moi
have made the world so joyous that
even silence itself is only music
asleep. He had not patience with
the fashion which allows a man tc
smile, but calls him vulgar if be
laughs. Out on the Christianity
which made mems faces the measure
of their goodness. All work and nc
play made Jack dull boy, but how
about all play and no works Too
much amusement was ruinous. His
golden rule was, Those amusements
are harmless which do not interfere
with home.' When q man learned
to like any place on earth better than
his home, then look out.
MATRIMONIAL BLUNDERS.
The next blunder was an unsatis
factory formation of domestic rela.
tionships. Solomon said? "a good
wife is of the Lord" He took it for
granted people will know where
a bad wife came from. There were
bad wives and bad husbands. Oh
course no member of his audience
had either. But if they knew any
one who had he had no message fol-
them, except that he had nothing to
suggest. They might take pattern
from the old lady who said she de.
rived immense comfort from Nicode-
mus xiii, 14-"Grin and bear 1t
There had never been a time in the
worlds history when there were sc
many good women as there are to-
day, and the man was a fool who die
HoG get one.
The last blunder alluded to was
that of attempting life without 8
spirit of enterprise and enthusiasm.
In connection with this subject the
lecturer referred to the enthusiasm
of the New England Yankees and the
caution of the Pennsylvania Dutch
He also alluded to phrenology
and mesmerlsm; that the man who
paid dollar to learn where some
stolen property was to be found
didn't pay it for nothing. Even i
the information didn't turn out quite
correc t, he knew, at any rate, where
the dollar had got to.
The lecture concluded with 81
eloquent peroration, in which ht
exhorted young men to have courag'
and do right regardless Of conse
quences and undeterred by occssion
al blunders.
The preachers were all there.